Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis, who has been critical of emergency evacuation plans at Pilgrim, said, "Today's announcement ... underscores the need to keep that plant closed until safety issues are resolved." Dukakis said his administration would "insist on a full accounting from Boston Edison of the violations at the Plymouth plant, including actions taken by the utility...
...findings are accurate, ideas about atmospheric evolution might have to be revised. The two admit the results "are still very preliminary," but they insist the method is sound...
Foreign leaders, however, attach one enormous condition, and it brings economic arguments full circle. They will not risk overstimulating their economies and inducing a new round of inflation for the sake of enabling America to continue living beyond its means. They will insist on a meaningful slash in the American budget deficit. The fear of inflation is particularly strong in West Germany, which was still raising interest rates shortly before Black Monday, to the intense displeasure of the U.S. German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg last week hinted at what would be required to get Bonn to change course. Said...
...expressing "happiness at the vagueness of the final statement," apparently suggesting that a more forthright document could have been worse. "The synod," he said, "was not ready to work out the differences between men and women, their specific tasks, and implementation according to local culture." The synod did insist upon the "dignity of women," but this was nothing more than Pope John Paul has already said on numerous occasions...
Hopefully, you no longer object to sentences that begin with the modifier hopefully. If you do, forget it; the battle is lost. On the other hand, if you still insist that infer and imply mean two different things, hang tough, despite accusations of being a word prig; this is one the word prigs could win. As for the plural-singular identity crises suffered by words like data and media, stand by; they could go either...